With great relief this film moves away from the standard immigration story (Mexico and the U.S.) and portrays a variety of people from different Nations attempting to become nationalized in the United States. The promise of the film as a whole is great but the actual delivery is not the greatest. The film is not boring, it will keep you in the moment because of the multiple story lines and the over the top actions of some of the characters; it is touching, moving, angering, even heart-wrenching at times but it lacks something. Something that cannot really be described, only felt. You leave the theater unsure, not really knowing if you enjoyed or film or not, but having learned something regardless.

The writing delivers a perfect distance from the characters and the viewer. As the story's progress you learn more and more about each character but never to much so that their history overshadows their current situation. The screenplay intricately weaves between each story line and gives you a smooth transition as they begin to overlap and move apart throughout.